Shakti Yoga School

Shakti School live trainings are unlike any yoga training you've done before. Our focus is less on the rigid, alignment-focused and forced asanas (often based on a 15-year old male body, as well as Indian martial arts and army training), and more on the innate circular and spiral movements of the body’s natural flow of life force.

Founder Katie Silcox refers to these movements as feminine form flow - based on what she calls “birther/dancer” expressions and experiences. The movements aren’t strict and codified, but are reflective of an ancient lineage that flows through the bones of women. The movements respect the innate intelligence and intuition of a woman’s body. The practices bow deeply to the sacred relationship that a woman has with her own form, and through her own experience.

Shakti School believes that true yoga lies in the intimate relationship of soul and body, psyche and soma. The process relies on a deep trust in the intelligence that lives inside us all - a cellular intelligence that unconsciouslyknows how to move the body when given the appropriate guidance and space.

Live trainings combine a beautiful combination of feminine form asana, somatic dance, innate breath work, sound/song, intellectual inquiry, emotional release, as well as Body Yantra - a meditative process of allowing the body to release into the natural parasympathetic flow through focusing on the bones and organs, as well as their structural relationships to one another.

In Order to Become Powerful, We Must Become Power.

The Yoga Modules

200 + 500-Hour Certifications | Be Untamable

Shakti School is one of the world’s most unique yoga schools - combining ancient mysticism, Tantra and yogic technologies with modern-day neuroscience, somatic psychology and shamanic understandings of interconnectedness and evolution.

Created from Katie Silcox’s nearly 20 years of dedicated yogic study and practice, this platform is for dedicated yoga students looking to become teachers, as well as anyone looking to tap into their evolutionary potential.

The broad offering of courses is designed to touch on all aspects of your being - physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual. You will leave these trainings different, and yet more authentically you.

Think of Shakti School as the ultimate teacher prep course, as well as a master immersion for those who may not be interested in becoming a yoga teacher, but who seek deep personal evolution. We offer 2 to 3 modules a year, as we believe that learning yoga is a life-long journey.

Shakti Yoga School Consists of 9 Modules

A total 500-hour Yoga Teacher Training Platform
(Please note, all nine modules can be taken in any order)

Also required are the completion of the trainings’ corresponding written thesis on an approved topic (to be determined via contact with the Shakti School team), regular personal practice journal, 20 hours non-contact teaching and practice off-site and one phone or Skype session/interview with Katie Silcox. The completion of this platform fulfills the 200 hour requirements with Yoga Alliance.

LEVEL 2 CERTIFICATION 500-HOUR

Requires Completion of Level I Certification modules (But, all nine modules can be taken in any order)

BHAKTI // The Technology of LoveRASA // Emotions as Portals to DivinitySUTRA // The Threads of EcstasyLAYA // Igniting the Fire of KundaliniKOSHAS // The Body of Bliss and Beyond

Requires completion of all nine Shakti School training modules including an additional written thesis on an approved topic, 100 hours of noncontact teaching and practice hours off-site. The completion of this platform fulfills the 500 hour requirements with Yoga Alliance.

Experiences From Our Community

"Words don’t do justice to describe my utmost gratitude in finding this program. The teachers ability to share so intimately and truthfully pulses through my veins and straight to my heart… and with such potent and beautiful language, the teachings become like dew drops on my parched brain. " — Taylor Rivers

"I appreciate and adore Katie’s ability to translate and provide the teachings in an accessible and digestible way."

— Kim Garrison Burriss, Psychotherapist, San Francisco, CA

"Katie Silcox is fierce compassion embodied. She is simultaneously a sharp sword (her word, her wit, her clear guidance), and a soft lap (her humility, humanity and seemingly boundless love). Through her, I have learned to let go and become the medicine I am seeking."

— Catherine Petru, Berkeley, CA.

"Katie Silcox has the rare gift of being able to pierce to the heart of a teaching and express it in a way that is not only clear and practical, but also dripping with aliveness, humor, and pure love. Katie is a walking, dancing, radiant embodiment of what she preaches. She is an Ayurvedic alchemist, a transformer of lives, and an awakener of magic. I am so grateful she has shown up in my life and that I took this training."